Pretty much any processor you can buy today has multiple cores. Two cores seems to be the defacto standard, however you can get up to 4 cores without breaking the bank, but do you see a worthwhile gain from these additional cores? This article titled “How Many CPU Cores Do You Need?” addresses this very question. Jumping to the results of the...

At the present time you have 3 choices for affordable (keyword there) multi-core processors, that being dual-core, triple-core and quad-core. If you’re going Intel you can do duals and quads. With AMD you have duals, triples and quads. No matter what brand you go with, multi-core (sometimes known as many-core) is the way to go. They run circles around...